MIKE ELK, POLITICO’S LABOR REPORTER, TRIES TO UNIONIZE HIS NEWSROOM

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by WARNER TODD HUSTON 27 Jan 2015 Washington D.C.

Last year, Washington, D.C.-based news organization Politico hired a strident union supporter as a reporter to cover the labor beat. Now, in a move that should surprise no one, that new employee is making a push to organize the organization’s workers.

Labor reporter Mike Elk was just hired in September of 2014, but now, before he hits his first anniversary, the writer is agitating to get employees to join him in unionizing the company.

Elk posted a recent Tweet trumpeting his progress, saying, “As Chris Townsend would say at [United Electrical], we got a beachhead @politico & are moving inland as we are encoutering [sic] almost no opposition.”

The Washington Free Beacon reports that Politico management has seemed receptive to the idea and has yet to make any objections to Elk’s efforts.

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